Unit 4 Flashcards
UCS, UCR, NS, CS, CR
Food, Salivating, bell, bell, salivating
2nd order conditioning
Adding another conditioned stimulus without pairing it to the unconscious stimulus
Classical
Pavlov
Associating a stimulus with another stimulus/event
Operant
Associating actions with consequences
PR
PP
NR
NP
Acquisition
When you acquire the conditioned response
Behaviorism
-Only observed, measured
Watson- Little Albert
Father of behaviorism
Rescorla (researcher)/ Wagner Discovered :
Conditioning only occurs when it predicts reliably
Animals learn predictability/expectancy of an event
Thorndike Law of Effect
Rewarded behaviors are repeated
Skinner box/operant chamber
Mouse and lever experiment
Shaping
Using reinforcement and punishment to guide towards desired behavior
Reinforcement Schedules
FR Every set # of times (Every 10 reps)
VR After random # (Slots)
FI After set amount (weekly paycheck)
VI after random time intervals (Email)
Partial vs continuous Reinforcment
Slow acquisition/extinction
Fast acquisition/extinction
Biofeedback Training
Gaining awareness and control of physiological functions like heart rate
Token economy
Extrinsic motivation (reinforcement)
Assosiating action and reward
Adversive conditioning
Helps a person give up a behavior by having them associate with something unpleasant
Observational
Learning by watching
Garcia Effect/ Taste Aversion
Sickening food—>Animals stop eating
Instinctual drift
When taught non instinctual behavior animals drift back to natural behaviors.
Tolman rat study
-Latent learning and cognitive maps
Cog map-mental representation
-Should reward/punishment necessary for learning
Kohler Insight Learning
Chimp study
A sudden realization with no interaction to the problem
Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation
Internal desire, no reward
Desire for external reward
Seligman Dog Shock Experiment
Established learned helplessness
Perceived lack of control
Internal vs External locus
You control your destiny
Fate is controlled by an outside source
Bandura Bobo doll
Children imitate what adults do through observation
Showed modeling